What's your favorite OLD (pre 1950) movie, anon?
I prefer just watching original Twilight Zone episodes because you have everything you could ever want in those 20 minutes.>inb4 zoomer attention spanI’m sorry but a lot of pre 70s movies have a lot of bullshit filled in before actually going somewhere in the last 20 minutes
I love Franchot Tone
>>218631204>pre 70s movieswhat changed after the 70s anon
Metropolis
>>218631262Idk I guess it’s just a me thing. I don’t watch a lot of stuff post 2000s either
>>218631161this crazy lady kino
>>218631262the blockbuster happened (jaws, star wars, exorcist)
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>>218631619headache webm
>>218631641you cant win them all
>>218631262New Hollywood?
>>218631642>>218631670>>218631698Anon, I asked for your FAVORITE (single) movie, not to dump your webms on this thread.
>>218631768It Happened One Night
>>218631262Hollywood rejected the classic Hollywood formula and just started throwing shit at the wall to see if it stuck, producing overrated garbage that wouldn't stand the test of time.Also new cheap film cameras came out in the late 60s which is why 70s Hollywood movies look like shit
>>218632020>Also new cheap film cameras came out in the late 60s which is why 70s Hollywood movies look like shitSo the 70s were the old 2020s?It makes sense because 70s movies were also hyper-political compared to previous decades, just like 2020s movies.
I Walked With A Zombie (1943) is crazy good. The original Haitian voodoo zombies are so much scarier and more interesting than Walking Dead-type ones
>>218631161The Devil and Miss JonesThe More the MerrierHoliday CampHere Come The HuggettsDear Mr ProhackThe Winslow BoyNight Must FallJune BrideThe Earl of ChicagoThe Fallen IdolMore Than A SecretaryParty Wire
>>218631161Braveheart or LOTR
>>218631420What would you call Gone with the Wind? Is there a difference between a "blockbuster" and a commercially successful film?
>>218631161The Wizard of Oz (1939)
>>218631161The Mummy maybe or Frankenstein
>>218631161This is so much fucking fun. Golding pacing, good characters, exciting climax.
>>218631282This.Metropolis is one of my favorite films ever. It's got everything in it, it's sci fi, political, somehow adventurous, iconic, great characters and set pieces. Just great.
Nosferatu Arsenic and Old Lace Bride of Frankenstein
M
>>218631161Never watched one that wasn't animated.
>>218631161Old is pre 2005.
>>218631161M (1931)
>>218631161I'd say pre 80s, maybe even pre 90s is old.
>>218631161I watch Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes quite frequentlyThe modernized WW2 "we'll take on the hun" (Voice of Terror, Secret Weapon and Holmes in Washington) have not held up, but Hound of the Baskervilles, Spider Woman, Pearl of Death and Scarlet Claw are nice rewatches
>>218631346>This>pre 1950Anon.....
>>218631161Gone With the Wind
>>218631161Casablanca and The Great Dictator.About as mainstream as it gets as far as opinions go, but those movies are still a good watch today. M is also still good. Not a fan of Citizen Kane though.
>>218631161Aside from the final chase that goes on way too long, Metropolis (1927) holds up super well
>>218640129I have now seen 6 movies either made by or starring Orson Welles and I hated every single one.
>>218640129>Not a fan of Citizen Kane though.What? Why? It's one of the few classics that actually deserves its praise
idk if i got a favorite, a marx brothers probably. rewatched fountainhead '49 last night though.
>>218631161Frank Capra's Lost Horizon needs more love. Grand Illusion is great
"I didn't know Wayne could act until Red River." -- John Ford
>>218631161For me, it's Treasure of the Sierra Madre
>>218640315idk, maybe it was too hyped as greatest movie ever when i saw it. I understand the technical innovations and I don't hate it, but most "greatest movie" rankings I remember put Kane over Casablanca and I never understood that. Maybe because the historical background is closer to me and the love triangle is more my thing.
Pride of the YankeesDay at the RacesHorse Feathersalmost every other Marx Brothers filmsArsenic and Old Lace
>>218640575>The tribe runs showbiz, showbiz was racist, you can't say the tribe is the gatekeeper of racist brainwashing
Barely makes the cut but Dead of Night (1945), one of the first horror anthologies.
>>218640687Should I watch Casablanca? I started my Noir marathon with The Big Sleep and I hated its nonsensical plot so fucking much I stopped there
Rope - just about makes the cutoff at 1948. Incredible movie, not sure why it's often overlooked, maybe due to its morbid nature that means you'll love it you sick piece of shit, go watch it if you haven't already.
Downhill (1927), early Hitchcock film which predates the Great Depression but is a true riches-to-rags story.
>>218641033>but is a true riches-to-rags storyI've noticed many classic movies are like this, they sure loved to instill on viewers not to try any funny idea to improve their station in life.
>>218641100they were pretty popular during the Depression and most were comedy-dramas. People enjoyed the idea of wealthy assholes losing everything, since nobody had anything anyway back then.
>>218640881I say go for it. The plot is straight forward, the characters mostly archetypical but well executed, I find the setting and atmosphere still interesting, give it a watch.
>>218638184yeah, those are pretty fun.I also watch It's a Wonderful Life every other christmas time at least.
>>218641184Alright. And for you I recommend The Caine Mutiny if you haven't seen it yet.It's 4 years off the mark of this thread but fuck it, Humphrey Bogart's in it
>>218631161I Married a Witch. It’s funny, charming, and white pilled.
>>218641056I don't know why but I instinctively stay far away from anything Japanese. I just don't see them making genuinely good cinema. Every bits and pieces I see feel mediocre in every way
>>218631161Bruh, wtf, I just watched this today. Straight up Baader Meinhof.
>>218631161Napoleon (1927)
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>>218641648woman in the dunes mogs your favorite movie
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>>218631161The only movie I've heard use the word "pickaniny"
>>218631161https://youtu.be/8upoPFafJqQ
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what's with mosaicfags and their need to spam
>>218634744Hollywood has always been a commercially centered business ever since its conception, but before 1970 they used to have a strong lineup of auteur-director dominating the field with their artistic vision and ideals. Director like ford, mccarey, hawks, wilder, etc are bunch of artists who used to lead hollywood in their era, holding those technical people on a leash and herding the plotfag to follow their ideals. However, because of the inevitable regeneration (where those generation of auteur directors eventually replaced by the new ones) in hollywood, their artistic ideals are no longer there and they, as a person, are being replaced by younger generation of people who unironically söying over technical and plot like spielberg (just to name a few). At the same time, hollywood execs realize that their newest generation of goy audience are not 'smart' (yes, there's a generational regeneration from audience side as well where young boomers have become their audience), in fact they are illiterate; they didnt go to cinema to watch something artistic or to appreciate director intention; they go to cinema to see plot, technical development, those 'movie-making magic', and most importantly: to be entertained. This is where the shift between art cinema happened, where artistic directors are being sidelined and blockbuster slop directors are being prioritized over time. But they are still keeping two or three auteur around to keep their artistic side afloat, thoughbeit on minimumAs for the difference between blockbuster and commercially succesful film, guess its quite self explanatory: a blockbuster is designed to be commercially succesful and commercially succesful film is a film that happened to be a commercial success.
Check out this little Bogey film, only 60 minutes. It's fantastic
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>>218645338one for each decade, nigger
